I'd like to automate generating at least two GPG keys for testing and demonstration purposes in a virtual machine. Because of this context I want to make sure the key generation is fast, ideally not ...

I don't like what GNOME applications, such as Gedit, came to be and how they look now in Debian Testing. These colorless and borderless windows with unfamiliar layout are totally unusable for me.
I ...

I want to limit the write speed and limit to specify directory.
Make this directory flakey.
Make this directory error for can't write data to it.
I have user dmsetup to create the device mapper with ...

I am writing unit tests and would like to test some code's handling of the case where a call to write(2) returns zero. As ever, it would be nice to keep the test as authentic as possible.
I can use a ...

We are running a real-time process on a non real-time kernel (CentOS 6), and this is probably not going to change.
We have a streaming video application that requires about 500 MB/s of PCIe traffic ...

I want to test the disk IO performance like read, write, random read, random write and so on both in physical machine and VMs (with aufs file system).
Also I want to test the throughput performance in ...

I'm writing a regression test for my modification of Nmap and I'm wondering if it's a good idea to create a test that would basically perform a large-scale connect() scan on 127.0.0.1/8, which would ...

I need to install Solaris 10 and I'm wondering if I need a support contract, on the download page it says that you need a support contract for production use, but I'm not too sure what production use ...

I have erratic working linux box and I suspect that it have some issues with either thermal monitoring modules, or even hardware.
I think about logging for some time temperature other things to see ...

I'm looking to automate some software testing that's currently done manually by a person. Are there any regression test suites for testing GUIs that run on Linux? I'm looking for a way to record and ...

Is there any framework to automatically try to compile a C++ project on github.com on every commit made, similar to what http://jenkins-ci.org or http://travis-ci.org do for different compilers on an ...

I want to simulate user activity on a virtual machine in a completely automated maner. That is, I would like to run a program or a set of scripts that would simulate an user using a computer for an ...

On my Debian-Testing-System, I want to completely conceal the home folders. That means, I not only want the data to be encrypted, but I also want to preclude determining any (or most) information from ...

I'd like to be able to test if I have access to the internet. My computer is connected to the residence internet connection.
I thought of using ping like this:
ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default ...

I am using this test tool : http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/
And I noticed that first 3 iterations take 4 hours but 30 iterations take only 12 hours. I was hoping that 30 iterations will take 40 ...

On my System (Debian Wheezy x64, Gnome 3) I don't have any system sounds. Other audio is working well.
When I go to settings > Audio > Sounds (hope it is called like this in english) as normal user, ...